Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-01-14

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nnpleasant for an outsider who en-
ters from the fresh air. The roof
of the building is always wet, and
collecting the vapor, let's it fall in
drops u,on the cattle and floor.
If one of the bulls eats too much
he is taken out into the air to re-
cover, and if he fails to throw OIL
the effects OF over. eating or shows
any signs OF getting ill, he IS sent
to the slaughter.house, and as Mr.
Boepple remarked, "knocked in
the head.D He says that conse-
quently, none of the bovine mem
bers of his boarding.house die a
natural death. He has a strict
code of rules. If an animal refuses
to eat or to grow fat, it is turned
into sausage iDstanter. When he
first introduces a fresh bunch OF
lean kline to the stable, they do not
begin "to take hold" of their food
for about fourteen days. They are
then on probation, and after that
must begin to grow fat. Then they
begin to improve constantly and at
the end of four months have reach
ed a maximum weight.
"Then you should see EN- said
Mr.. Boepple enthusiastically. The
hair all falls off their hides and they
are as bald and slick as a mans
head. 1t does me more good to
come down here then and gaze at
them than to 60 into nice parlor''
The moist atmosphere and the
rich food causes them TO shed their
hair. The owner claimed that this
treatment also softened the tough
bull sinews. They begin to shed
after two months residence, and
two men are kept busy scraplng
away the hair. The fattest ones
are turned into dressed beef for the
market, and the rest run through a
steam sausage mill. When one OF
the bulls develops great breadth
and reaches 1000 pounds he is
shipped to England. The only
trouble about this is that after leav-
ing his stall and this rich food, he
begins to lose his flesh. II the
treatment has the effect of sOftening
a bulls flesh, it also cOnduces to
suhdue his spirits. When he is
first chained he makes many strug'
giles to attack his neighbOr, but
soon subsidies into passive state,
where it is an effort for him to arise
and to eat. He gets good care and
has a clean stall, which, no doubt
softens his disposition as we'll as
his sinews.
THE PROFITS.
The reason of the rich sausage
makers profits is plain. He buys
bulls for mere song. Butchers
can not handle them because their
fiesh is rank and tough. Whenever
a shipment of cattle is received at
the stock yards some bulls are al
ways found. These are cut out by
those who buy the cattle for the
slaughter.house, and hence, being
! left on the consignee's hands, are
sold as low as one and one halt
cents a pound. 1t costs BOepple
twelve and One-half cents q day to
feed them, and each one takes on
I not less than 500 pounds during
| the three of four months on his i'm
prisonment. Being dressed for the
market, they bring as good price as
any other beef, and when run into
sausagemeat the whole of the bull
lock except the tenderloins is used
When a person eats sausage made
from bulls meat he has favored
article that would taste the same as
the meat of the best Durham nav
erick. Whether the fattening pro-
cess is too rapid and of hOt-house
nature to suit hygienic ideas Is foT
every reader to determine for him
self. A man might not bloom like
an American beauty rose under the
forcing process of steam and red
hot mash, bat perhaps bull is
built that way. Atall events, after
living like the proverbial fighting
cock for several months under Mr.
Boepple's care, the most vicious and
curly.uecked brute makes a good
string of 500 or 600 pounds of bo
logna and wiener. wursts, and every
body eats them blissfully ignorant
of the part the bulbs meat takes in
the ingredients. Every fall Mr.
| Boepple fills his stable with these
cattle, and kills them and supplies
their places as necessity requires
| A sewer runs beneath the stable
and the refuse is washed into this
,eceptable, keeping the place rea
sonably clean.
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